In this paper I develop an account of petitio principii (the fallacy sometimes also called 'vicious circularity', or ' ... new light on the old problem of characterizing petitio principii. It avoids the two obvious problems which any ...
Tópico(s): Philosophy and Theoretical Science
2013 - Oxford University Press | Mind
... a common complaint that the syllogism commits a petitio principii. This is discussed extensively by John Stuart Mill ...
Tópico(s): Political Theory and Influence
2014 - Taylor & Francis | History and Philosophy of Logic
... for reliable taxonomic and analytical information about the petitio principii, one is met with conceptual disarray and much too much nonsense. The present writers have recently attempted to furnish the beginnings of a theoretical reconstruction of this fallacy which is at once faithful to its formidable complexity yet useful as guide for its detection and avoidance. The fact is that the petitio has had a lengthy and interesting history, and ...
Tópico(s): Classical Philosophy and Thought
1982 - Cambridge University Press | Canadian Journal of Philosophy
John Fuerst, Emil O. W. Kirkegaard,
... s point of view, we are making grand petitio principii (This logic departs from what is before us, ...
Tópico(s): Cultural Differences and Values
2016 - Institute for the Study of Man | Mankind Quarterly
... second one is based on a fallacy of petitio principii (this is exactly the same type of objection ...
Tópico(s): Philosophy and History of Science
2014 - | Logic and Logical Philosophy
Massimo Pigliucci, Maarten Boudry,
... exactly some fallacies (ad hominem, ad ignorantiam, and petitio principii) may or may not occur.
Tópico(s): Philosophy and Theoretical Science
2013 - Springer Science+Business Media | Philosophia
Tópico(s): Semantic Web and Ontologies
2009 - Springer Science+Business Media | Synthese
... the argumentum ad ignorantiam, the circular argument or petitio principii, and the slippery slope argument--are affected by ...
Tópico(s): Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation
2007 - American Psychological Association | Psychological Review
... premised, and free of such obvious fallacies as petitio principii. Thus it does not rest on the question- ...
Tópico(s): Philosophical Ethics and Theory
2005 - Wiley | dialectica
... action, it is plain that it involves a petitio principii, and this is expressed in the first three ...
Tópico(s): Epilepsy research and treatment
2005 - Wiley | Epilepsia
... fallacy of denying the antecedent, the fallacy of petitio principii, or the fallacy of equivocation. More recently, writing ...
Tópico(s): Quantum Mechanics and Applications
2000 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence
... and of succumbing to the fatal dangers of petitio principii and circular reasoning. In other words, they claimed ...
Tópico(s): Byzantine Studies and History
1996 - University of Pennsylvania Press | Journal of the History of Ideas
... The scope of logic The syllogism as a Petitio Principii The heuristic role of syllogism Descartes's conception ...
Tópico(s): Classical Philosophy and Thought
1990 - Association of College and Research Libraries | Choice Reviews Online
... discussed within the sciences on pain regress or petitio principii, since they are the protai, the firsts, everything ...
Tópico(s): Philosophy and History of Science
1981 - Brill | Phronesis
Tópico(s): Diverse Legal and Medical Studies
1975 - Springer Science+Business Media | Synthese
... themselves. This definition, let us note, involves no “petitio principii.” The sense of the adjective “philosophic” need not ...
Tópico(s): African cultural and philosophical studies
1970 - Cambridge University Press | Diogenes
... final stage of the proof as ‘a blatant petitio principii ’. A third remarks that the conclusion follows ‘if ...
Tópico(s): Classical Philosophy and Thought
1967 - Cambridge University Press | The Classical Quarterly
... change, it would, of course, be a mere petitio principii; but such an interpretation would be a misreading ...
Tópico(s): Economic Growth and Productivity
1943 - The MIT Press | The Review of Economics and Statistics
Mark Solms proposes that the upper brainstem is intrinsically conscious and that the cortex is intrinsically unconscious and is only permeated with consciousness from the brainstem. His theory relies heavily on studies of hydranencephalic children, who appear to have emotional reactions to outside stimuli despite the fact that they are missing a cerebral cortex. Solms uses this as his main evidence that consciousness is not a function of the cortex. However, I explain in this commentary, based on ...
Tópico(s): Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs
2013 - Taylor & Francis | Neuropsychoanalysis
... This sense is rightly caught in the Latin 'petitio principii' but not very illuminatingly in the English 'begging ...
Tópico(s): Philosophical Ethics and Theory
1986 - University of Windsor | Informal Logic
... in [8] and [9] that circularity of argument (petitio principii) is best thought of as an epistemic matter, and for those who agree with us on this point it may not seem too surprising that there is a connection between circularity and von Wright-Geach "entailment".For those who disagree with our thesis that petitio is essentially epistemic, we hope that establishing the ...
Tópico(s): Benford’s Law and Fraud Detection
1979 - Duke University Press | Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic
... el análisis de Jackson sobre el concepto de petitio principii. Destaco como especialmente relevante entre tales propósitos la ...
Tópico(s): Free Will and Agency
2012 - University of the Basque Country | THEORIA An International Journal for Theory History and Foundations of Science
... argument for God's existence invalid, involving a petitio principii. I believe that Professor Norton is incorrect in accusing Descartes of this petitio, but his paper is tightly argued and its ...
Tópico(s): Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education
1974 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Journal of the history of philosophy
... between the two, it would amount to a petitio principii to draw theoretical assumptions. Therefore, this study attempts ...
Tópico(s): Military History and Strategy
2022 - SAGE Publishing | Journal of Asian and African Studies
En el pretendido paso de la 'sociedad de la informacion' a la 'sociedad del conocimiento', se estan produciendo toda una serie de cambios y exigencias que llevan a la instauracion del 'capitalismo del conocimiento'. Asi, bajo el atractivo nombre de 'sociedad del conocimiento' se esconde una nueva forma de capitalismo y un cruel mecanismo de retroalimentacion: el ser humano es exhortado a mantenerse flexible ante los cambios y a responsabilizarse de su empleabilidad, legitimando de este modo el nuevo ...
Tópico(s): Social Sciences and Policies
2009 - Asociación Granadina de Antropología | Gazeta de Antropología
... to which there was at some time a petitio principii in the theory of parallels and argue that ...
Tópico(s): Historical Astronomy and Related Studies
2003 - Cambridge University Press | Science in Context
... field properties to space‐time points. There is petitio principii error made in this reasoning because Field does ...
Tópico(s): Philosophy, Science, and History
1999 - Routledge | International Studies in the Philosophy of Science
... Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas); selfevidence and self-explanatoriness (vs. petitio principii); self-killing and self-generation of life; self- ...
Tópico(s): Philosophy, History, and Historiography
1992 - Johns Hopkins University Press | MLN
In this contribution we focus on the petitio principii fallacy and we review it under the tenets of different typical treatments. Then we submit the claim that petitio principii is indeed fallacious, not because of circularity—as ... logic. In other words, we claim that, although petitio principii arguments appear to be circular with respect to ... to their illocutionary acts. And hence, even when petitio principii arguments look like propositional loops and instances of ...
Tópico(s): Philosophy and Theoretical Science
2018 - UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DA PARAÍBA | Aufklärung journal of philosophy
... in which presumptive findings are taken for presuppositions (petitio principii). Moreover, they seem to disregard actual usage of ...
Tópico(s): Lexicography and Language Studies
2018 - University of Bern | Linguistik Online